Lawsuit filed over Kyle Field reseating
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 6:01 pmThere is way more of the story on the link, but here's the first part
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When Warren Moore and his family donated $60,000 to a Texas A&M University scholarship fund in 1985, they were promised some of the best seats at Kyle Field.
For life.
So for nearly three decades the family has sat in eight seats on the stadium’s west side — second deck, Section 209, Row 25, Seats 1 to 8 — cheering on the Aggies, in good times and in bad.
But now the Moores are among the Aggie fans suing the university because they feel they’re getting gigged in a “reseating†program created by the $450 million renovation of Kyle Field.
Following the lead of other fans, including two former presidents of the Houston A&M Club who sued this year, Moore filed a lawsuit against the 12th Man Foundation in Tarrant County last week, accusing the university of breach of contract and misrepresentation.
With the reseating program underway, they’ve also asked state District Judge Mark Pittman to set their eight seats aside when they are opened for reassignment March 16. The family would have to pledge to spend $360,000 to keep the seats over the next 15 years, court records show.
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The Moores received letters stating that if they “wished to have any chance†to obtain seats that had now become the Prime West Legacy Club, they would have to pay a $15,000-per-seat capital campaign “gift,†good only for the next 15 years, Moore’s affidavit says.
Starting in 2015, they would also be asked to contribute $2,000 a year for each seat over the next 15 years, adding $240,000 to the bill, for a grand total of $360,000 over the next 15 years, Moore said.
And even with those payments, the family would get seats only somewhere in that section because their current ranking would have them picking seats long after everyone else. The seats may not even be together.